On 5/12/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 13 May 2007 01:59, Kent West wrote: > > You might should've tried Ctrl-Alt-PgUp to cycle through the available > > modes. The Installation offered video mode in a checkbox fashion (I.E. multiple selections) and I *thought* I was on a different monitor and picked as the highest resolution *too* high a resolution. My fault for looking at another xorg.conf instead of the Monitor Manual. > > Or you could've tried Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X. X didn't start. The message appears to be coming from the monitor.
If the problem is related to your xorg.conf settings as implied above, then the problem is that X is overdriving your monitor, meaning that X did indeed start. If X did not start, then you would've been in text mode, in which case it's unlikely you'd see this problem (unless you're doing some odd framebuffer stuff). At any rate, I suspect you'll be able to recover in "recovery mode". You'll probably want to run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (I _think_ that's the command) rather than editing the file by hand though, else future upgrades won't touch your hand-tweaked file. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
